May 30, 2013

Boron in Graphene for better Li-ion capacity and better batteries

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From Clean Technica article by a guest contributor | May 24, 2013

Boron in graphene could improve its capacity to retain Lithium ions for greater Li-ion capacity.  Graphene lattices, a new space material which could have very dense storage capacity could not do so as is, but researchers/scientists at Rice University found a way to increase capacity by adding Boron. The lead scientist is Dr. Boris  Yakobson.  Graphene's performance is 2x that of graphite, the traditional material used for Li-ion batteries.

Yakobson and first Rice researcher Yuanye Liu estimated the lithiated graphene boron capacity to be  714 milliamps per hour per gram or 2, 120 watt hours per kg. when paired with commercial boron lithium oxide

The next step is how to commercialize the idea, ie produce the lithiated graphene/boron in large quantity

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